>>> Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to >>> relicense all of the contributions it has received. >> >> As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source >> licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license >> agreement, so is unable to relicense the last 8 months of work under >> any license incompatible with the ones used by those contributions.
> Unable is a strong word. I given that we are talking about historically recent contributions, > I would think that it would be possible to identify and reach out to those who made these > contributions. These people, after all, DO hold the copyrights. In fact, as I pointed out earlier, about 75% to 90% of the LIbreOffice contributions have been made by the employees of a handful of companies, primarily Linux distributors such as Novell, Red Hat and Canonical. So in fact, if those companies decided to join in an Apache Licensed effort, this issue would be largely addressed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
